Telecom just accidentally my internet plan

[vifferman]

That's a serious porn addiction ...........

I'm sure some of it's porn, but they download all sorts of weird shit: foreign language movies, language lessons, physics lectures, manga, stuff I don't want to know about...

Oh - and I've checked the Vodafone site - there isn't a better plan, and I don't want to swap ISPs again (have used so many over the last 10 years, including several that no longer exist).

[ready4whatever]

What isnt going up now-a-days

[Street Gerbil]

Fuckin' jews,

This is not very nice of you.

[Gremlin]

accidentally

accidentally

I would imagine its very deliberate. Even the telecom website is down right now, but they have a new large plan, whatever it was called. Guess you have to move to that...

accidentally

[Blackshear]

accidentally

accidentally

I would imagine its very deliberate. Even the telecom website is down right now, but they have a new large plan, whatever it was called. Guess you have to move to that...

accidentally

It's called Big Time.
Just like GoLarge, but without an upload cap. So my UL will be going from about 17KB/s max to around 90-100KB/s max.

However. 'UNLIKE GOLARGE, which had artificial bandwidth caps, Big Time will not. However, like GoLarge, we will be enforcing Traffic Management - Mainly during the busy times of 9am - 2am (Basically a whole fucking 24 hours), so you may see a decrease in speed during these hours.'

Oh and by the way, any existing GoLarge/other Telecom customers.
My broadband speed literally DOUBLED when I changed from the free router they provide. From 4.1-5mbps to 9.5mbps. Well worth $40.

This is a big whoop for me, been on this plan since '07

[firefighter]

from the free router they provide. From 4.1-5mbps to 9.5mbps. Well worth $40.

$40?! Where from? Which router?

[Blackshear]

$40?! Where from? Which router?

Well there was one on trademe for $40, same as mine for that much.

Or you can say the original stopped working

EDIT: Thomson Speedtouch

[SMOKEU]

Go with Telstra.

[Blackshear]

Go with Telstra.

They look rather expensive for what I would switch from.
Whatever it is, it can't have a cap. I'd die if I wasn't allowed over 200GB a month.

[DMCD]

Oh yea, Telecom sucks for many reasons.

I think TelstraClear is the way to go for sure, you cant go wrong with TelstraClear, its great...

( Looks around to make sure boss is watching )

[Slicksta]

I would still go with big time man
I went from go large to big time and got a speed increase. Also with big time they let you turn of interleaving thats well worth it if you play online games or just like an awsome ping.Last night i was downloading from game trailers at around 9.6mbit for international traffic, thats not bad, Nationally i get 15-18mbit peak times.The unlimited upload is awsome if your like me and seed or upload heaps of shit.

[YellowDog]

Thanks for this guys.

I just got the same letter too.

I quite like the idea of $10 for a faster upload speed.

So the Big Time has more than just no cap, when compared with the no additional cost Explorer Plan?

I would be quite happy with a 10Gb limit as I have grown out of the porn thing (sad I know). I rather do it rather than watch it being done.

So for me, I will be paying $10 per month for a faster upload speed. Right?

[Lias]

Big time is fucking great.. I did over 700gb in my first month, and I still get good pings and no lag for gaming during peak hour.

[MDR2]

Come home from work today to see a letter from telecom on the table. A quick read of it has me seeing red. The Go Large plan that im currently on is beig discontinued. That is to say they are rolling out new plans and forcing existing customers and new alike to sign up to the new plan. You would think being an existing customer I could just stay on the current plan...no.

Summary of letter: Telecom are rolling out another turd encrusted plan and charging out the ass for it.

Current top of the line plan sets me back $49.95 (too much considering all the things they say i can do (stream/download/browse the net) i stuggle to do just one of those at the best of times. Watching anything on you tube is a painful thing.)

New plan (which doesn't sound all that much differint to current plan) will set me back another 10 bucks on top of current plan.

Add a further 10 on top of the extra cost if you're not a currently paying your toll calls through them currently.


This letter if pretty much the straw that breaks the camels back. I'm looking for a new broadband provider tonight, i'll cancel my cell phone at the end of month and the wife will be canning what associations her buisness has with them also.

The missus has started up a Facebook thingee against Telecom ( I dunno quite how it works )

I'd like to think that if enough people got shitty enough about it they would atleast re consider leaving existing customers on the plans they are already on.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=149881618404

[325rocket]

theres another thread on here about this as well. they tried to push us off this once before but we wouldnt go. looks like theres not much choice this time.

The missus has started up a Facebook thingee against Telecom ( I dunno quite how it works )

I'd like to think that if enough people got shitty enough about it they would atleast re consider leaving existing customers on the plans they are already on.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=149881618404

good idea but do you really want to stay on that plan? im on it to and its crap. pretty much dial up speed for $49 per month. im pretty sure they have been slowing it down to encourage people to get off it to.



btw: it just started hailing, nothing to do with telecom but there you go.